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Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

By Corinne Segal | March 25, 2020

How to Spend 42 Days Stuck<br> in Your Room

How to Spend 42 Days Stuck
in Your Room

Will Schwalbe on Xavier de Maistre's 1790 Study of Isolation

By Will Schwalbe | March 25, 2020

One Utah County's Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

One Utah County's Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

David Daley on Voter Suppression in Big Sky Country

By David Daley | March 25, 2020

The Black Descendants of President Madison

The Black Descendants of President Madison

Bettye Kearse on the Complicated Lineage of Her Ancestors

By Bettye Kearse | March 25, 2020

Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici

Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici

Katy Simpson Smith on Identity, Racism, and Reclamation

By Katy Simpson Smith | March 24, 2020

At the Very Beginning of the Great Alaska Earthquake

At the Very Beginning of the Great Alaska Earthquake

Jon Mooallem on the Disaster of 1964

By Jon Mooallem | March 24, 2020

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Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

By Soraya Chemaly | March 24, 2020

HBO’s The Plot Against America Betrays Philip Roth—With Excellent Results

By Jacques Berlinerblau | March 23, 2020

Babe Ruth and the Moment American Baseball Changed Forever

By Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith | March 23, 2020

On the Road with the Heiress Who Dominated Early Motorsports

On the Road with the Heiress Who Dominated Early Motorsports

Neal Bascomb on the Life and Times of Lucy Schell

By Neal Bascomb | March 20, 2020

A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

Mark Nowak on the Workshops of the Watts Rebellion

By Mark Nowak | March 20, 2020

Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Alessio Perrone Reports from Milan

By Alessio Perrone | March 19, 2020

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

Alex Halberstadt on the Life and Times of His Grandmother Tamara

By Alex Halberstadt | March 18, 2020

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

"I regard such things as premature impertinences."

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

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